of Genoa, Pietro II and his wife Bartolomea Grimaldi of the House of Grimaldi rulers of Genoa and Princes of Monaco. A certain Gian Nicola di Gian Maria Cavanna is also recorded in Genoa in 1640. Domenico Cavanna da Gropallo is found in records dating to 1700 in Casimoreno , a small fraction of the Comune di Ferriere. In 1794, Alba Cavanna became the third wife and Countess of Marco Antonio Arcelli (died 1812), Count of Monteventano, Montebissago, Veratto, and Valle Luretta. His sister Nobile Caterina married Nobile Manfredo Cavanna Pacchiarotti. Their aunt, Nobile Ippolita married Nobile Antonio Cavanna Pacchiarotti (died 1751). Another relative, Nobile Maria Teresa Cavanna Pacchiarotti (died 1748) married Conte Cesare Caracciolo, descendant of Antonio Caracciolo (died 1504), Count of Macerato, Statto, Fiorano, Pozzolo, Fabiano, Raglio and Spettino, Governor of Pavia, and a Patrician of Naples who served for the Duke of Milan. Don Giuseppe Cavanna was initiator and first director of Il Resegone, the first edition of which appeared in Lecco on 17 February 1882 as a response to national political turmoil and rampant laicization and anti-clericalism. Don Cavanna ensured a catholic perspective on social problems, influenced by the encyclical of Pope Leo XIII, Rerum novarum on rights and duties of capital and labour, and the conditions of the working classes, enunciating workers’ rights and the right to property; the Roman Question; and in order to fight corruption in public life. Don Cavanna held that religion must be the fundamental basis of all values, and that truth and justice should be upheld rigorously. His legacy endures as the periodical continues in its 127th year . Coat of arms The Cavanna arms consist of a shield gules a bend argent from the dexter fess to the sinister base, in chief an eagle sable displayed, the head to the dexter, under a crown or. This displayed black eagle in chief under a crown was the capo dell'Impero, and derives from Frederick I, Holy Roman Emperor, first of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Emperors, who was crowned by Pope Adrian IV in 1155. Its origin in Genovese nobility hails from 1161, when the then-ambassador of Genoa to the court of Frederick I in Pavia was granted that concession. The Cavanna heraldic motto is "Iurista Sapiens". Early migration and diaspora Today, a concentration of descendant Cavannas is found in the locality of Cassimoreno and the nearby village of Centenaro, near Ferriere,